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By Tessa Smith Nearly all workers are categorized as either self-employed or a staff member of another person or company, and every status has its benefits and drawbacks. In this post, we shall analyze the concept of the statutory employee, as well as the conditions surrounding their existence and operations.…

By Robert Farris, Chairman and President at CoNimby Foundation Happy Holidays to all of you. Thank you for being a friend of The Ohio Cooperative, and for sending all of your wonderful comments and questions. We enjoy reading them every day, and look forward to reading many, many more. Thanks to our…

By Robert Farris, Chairman and President at CoNimby Foundation In order to achieve happiness one must balance their Faith, Family, and Finances. At The Ohio Cooperative happiness is a journey we all must take. In order to foster that journey we had to develop key structural policies. In this presentation…

By Robert Farris, Chair & President, CoNimby Foundation Horizontal leadership is essentially working relationships across organizational boundaries; forcing cooperative worker-owners to treat each other with mutual respect and reciprocity. Top down command and control leadership has no footing in the cooperative. Here a leader isn’t a permanent title; it’s an…

By Ashley Moore An Impact Fund®, a registered trademark of The Ohio Cooperative, is an impact investment vehicle dedicated to utilizing philanthropic capital to foster community development, job creation, and job growth. Impact investments are investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention of generating social and environmental…

By Christiana Jones WHAT IS MOBILE ENTERPRISE? Even though we hear so much about the “Mobile Enterprise” most of us don’t really know what it all really means or why it matters a lot in the business world. In every business platform, “Mobile Enterprise” plays a very big role, it…

By Jennifer Steward The rise of Anchor Institutions The Ohio Cooperative seeks to develop anchor institutions to support the development of entrepreneurial cooperative ecosystems. The entrepreneurial cooperative ecosystems will foster community development, job creation and growth. The cooperative supports the good workplace practices outlined by the High Road Workplace Project,…

The form you need to open a Partner account with The Ohio Cooperative is below. Click Download to view the form online or to download a printable version. Access to online documents To view and print the documents online, you’ll need Adobe Acrobat Reader, version 4.0 or higher. If you don’t have…

The purpose of the Cooperative is to provide steady support for the Foundation’s exempt purpose, while helping its’ workers be more successful. This mission requires our network of professionals to acquire, and manage diverse asset classes and categories to assure perpetuity. WE’RE PRUDENT We use a defensive portfolio strategy, a…